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§ A208 BROOME COUNTY CHARTER AND CODE § A212
may change, supersede or amend any act of the New York State Legislature. Such power shall
include but shall not be limited to a power or powers vested in any County in the State of
New York or the elective governing body thereof to adopt, amend or repeal local laws granted
by any provisions of general laws, special laws, charters, special acts or local laws. The
provisions of the Municipal Home Rule Law are hereby made applicable for the adoption and
publication subsequent thereto of all local laws.
§ A209. Form and procedure. [Amended 6-24-1986 by L.L. No. 5-1986; 4-4-1991 by
L.L. No. 10-1991]
Every local law shall be entitled "Local Law No. _____, Year _____ ..." (amending, etc. or
otherwise as the case may be). If a local law amends a specific local law, the matter to be
eliminated shall be enclosed in brackets or parentheses and the new matter underscored or
italicized.
Except as may otherwise be provided in the Charter, the procedure for the adoption of a local
law, including referendum, mandatory or permissive, shall be as provided in Articles 3 and 4
of the Municipal Home Rule Law.
Within five days after the taking of effect of a local law, the Clerk of the County Legislature
shall file a certified copy thereof in the office of the County Clerk and three copies in the
office of the Secretary of State. Such certified copy shall contain the text only of the local law
without the brackets and the matter within the brackets or the italicizing or underscoring, if
any, to indicate the changes made by it. At the same time the Clerk of the County Legislature
shall cause to be published at least once as a County charge in the designated newspaper of
general circulation published in the County a notice that such local law was adopted, a brief
description of such local law and that the full text of such local law may be examined during
regular business hours in the office of the Clerk of the County Legislature, provided that
failure to do so shall not affect the validity of such local law.
§ A210. Filing and publication of local laws; judicial notice.
The filing and publication of local laws shall be as provided by § 27 of the Municipal Home
Rule Law, and the court shall take judicial notice of all local laws and of rules and regulations
adopted pursuant thereto.
§ A211. Referendum.
A local law shall be subject to mandatory or permissive referendum when required by the
Charter or applicable law. Where no mandatory or permissive referendum is so required, the
County Legislature may nevertheless provide in a local law that a referendum shall be had or
that it shall be subject to permissive referendum.
§ A212. Effective date.
After adoption, every local law shall become effective when filed in the office of the
Secretary of the State of New York or on such later date as may be provided in said local law.
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